2 Aug
2004
2 Aug
'04
7:09 a.m.
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Tom Hudson wrote:
To be honest, I've never heard of any other
computers using 8-tracks as
storage. Tape is bad enough, but the nature of 8-track architecture (no
rewind) would make usage of it almost completely untenable!
Right, which makes it all the more surprising. Was it reliable? Did it
have a directory structure of any sort? Did it store multiple
programs/data per track?
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